Market Beat

Fairfield county, CT : office snapshot - Q4 2014

With 2014 being America’s best year of job growth since 1999, Fairfield County now has a 5.6% unemployment rate which is a 1.2 percentage point (pp) improvement from the start of the year. Although the state lags behind the national average in job recovery and average weekly wage gains, a strong year of leasing proved Fairfield County is experiencing healthy, albeit delayed economic growth.